J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Eu and Treport Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Lighthouse West of Le Tréport 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Lighthouse West of Le Tréport’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Lighthouse West of Le Tréport 1845
D35458
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 23
Pencil on paper, 232 x 331 mm
Inscribed in pen and blue ink ‘1486’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCCLIX–23’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Church of St-Jacques du Treport at the centre of this sketch locates the scene west of small harbour town.1 Rapid, cool blue brushstrokes create the sense of a choppy sea while warmer, washes describe the prominent lighthouse in the composition’s middle distance.
1
For a contemporary description of St-Jacques du Tréport, see Jean Benoi^t De´sire´ Cochet, Les Églises de l’Arrondissement de Dieppe, Dieppe 1846, pp.182–191.
Verso:
The verso of the sketch it pasted to its mount.

John Chu
February 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Lighthouse West of Le Tréport 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-lighthouse-west-of-le-treport-r1173552, accessed 24 November 2024.